I didn't get to disc 4 but i know that you have to beat the game in under 20 hours or something.

Close, you have to reach Memoria in under 12 hours.

I'll admit that I'm certainly not an expert in FFIX. I made it to Memoria in about 13 hours, so I'm sure that if I really wanted to I could eventually shave that excess time off, but I've never really gotten into FFIX

You have to defeat Lich and look at the first on the right pillar in under 12 hours to be precise. I've done (what I know of and I know quite a lot) everything on FF9 apart from the Excalibur II sidequest cause I just can't bring myself to do it.Come on is there anyone who's done it!

Excalibur II is the only thing I didn't get. And the idea of it kinda' annoys me, I mean, it's REALLY not something anyone would get without a guide to know it's there. I prefer games to have things you can find on your own without a guide. =/

Ya know what....now I gotta dust off my copy of 9 and try to get it, because I am annoyed at not having done it. I mean, I got the Zeus Hammer and smacked Ozma...now I gotta get excalibur 2....arghhh!!

Doing the tedious Chocobo-treasure minigame is harder than fighting the multicoloured bastard...and a good tip: input your commands while his animations are still going. That way he doesn't get a free turn. (He automatically does a move when you input a command.)

The Excalibur II quest is about the only thing I haven't done, really, and I'm too much of a wuss to devote countless resets and retries since my last playthrough was bullet-in-the-head meticulous. I guess I could lay claim to having witnessed 98% of the dialogue first-hand, but that's nothing special.

My best achievement? I finished the game with the Atlethe Queen and 1789 Jumps in the Jump Rope minigame. I don't know about the Excalibur II, I always knew that you got to be in Memoria in less than 12 hours, but its really worth it? Far I know only Steiner can equip it ( and if you don't like Steiner, why bother?), plus you could simply get it with a gameshark code..

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Oh...and I was mastering all my 100 cards, I got around 1620 points but then I accidentally erased my record.

Getting the sword is actually very easy. Play the game through at your own pace, then once you reach the correct place, leave the game on until 100 hours. This resets the timer allowing you to get the sword. Simple. However, it still does not make the game any more fun...

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Getting the sword is actually very easy. Play the game through at your own pace, then once you reach the correct place, leave the game on until 100 hours. This resets the timer allowing you to get the sword. Simple. However, it still does not make the game any more fun...

Has that been verified anywhere? It seems like a rookie glitch if they actually allowed that.

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Getting the sword is actually very easy. Play the game through at your own pace, then once you reach the correct place, leave the game on until 100 hours. This resets the timer allowing you to get the sword. Simple. However, it still does not make the game any more fun...

I can't bring myself to play for only 12 hours just to get a real powerful sword. I loved the Chocobo mini-game but it is a pain to master it and you need to in order to get Zidane's Ultima Weapon and Steiner's Ragnarok with Shock. I've never gotten far enough in the Chocobo quest to fight Ozma.

Getting the sword is actually very easy. Play the game through at your own pace, then once you reach the correct place, leave the game on until 100 hours. This resets the timer allowing you to get the sword. Simple. However, it still does not make the game any more fun...

Has that been verified anywhere? It seems like a rookie glitch if they actually allowed that.

No, that's been proven false by a number of people. The timer does reset, but the Excalibur II has gone.

Has that been verified anywhere? It seems like a rookie glitch if they actually allowed that.

Not to mention it doesn't make sense from a programming point of view. This isn't an overflow. Timing glitches occur because you end up flipping the bits because someone was fool enough to use a byte when a word was needed.

That is to say that 100 hours isn't a power of 2 using any sort of well-known atomic as your time representation. It's also unlikely that the game itself would 'reset' the clock variable directly, but just roll over the display.

You'd be better off trying 2^32 seconds to see if an overflow occurs. I estimate that to be 130+ years.

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